An Unexpected Reunion Ends in a Choice Between a Journey to the Altar or Death.
Floravera is a magical kingdom, filled with people, magic, & dragons. There are multiple kingdoms like this around the globe. However, Floravera is known to be the Prett...
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"If you can't run, then fight. Fight until you can't, until someone else can come help you. Fighting is all about, endurance, and brain power. " - Charles, the head guard.
"Run!" I scream at everyone. Liam instantly pulls me back into the dining room, and Ms. Hillston follows after us. Preston and Mr. Hillston follow suit, running back but the man from the tree, grabs Mr. Hillston, stabbing him through the back.
He dies instantly from the impact. Falling to the ground. Ms. Hillston screams "NOOOOO" Preston runs to the back and grabs a sword. He runs at the man with it. The man dodges it. Preston falls forward and knocks his head on the ground, knocking out.
Liam pulls me, and Ms. Hillston behind him, pushing us further back into the dining room, using his body as a shield. The man follows after. Liam takes a step back, he takes a step forward.
Liam grabs a candle stick and holds it up with both his hands. The man, tilts his head in confusion? Amusement? I wouldn't know. I however am sitting here in confusion, and fear for Liam's life.
The man lunges forward with the sword, liam catches the sword between the candle stick, and twists it out of his hands. it clatters to the ground behind us all.
The man takes a step back, at that. Liam continues holding the candle stick out at him. "I would suggest leaving." Liam warns him.
Ms. Hillston takes a step away from behind Liam. I shake my head at her, but it's too late. She's already making a run for the doors as she goes on the opposite side of the table.
The man immediately acts, and runs after her, Liam stops him by grabbing his arm, and throwing him on table. "Holy shit!" I cover my hands with my mouth.
The man rolls off the table, his face turns to mine, and his gaze catches onto my ring. My ring! I forgot I had magic. But... he didn't. He's here for exactly this.
I immediately turn the ring into a staff again. He looks between me and Liam. I walk slowly to my left, where he is. Liam's eyes never leave him. "Ari get back over here." He leans forward, ready to jump the table, the man stands there, still eying us both.
"No. He came here for this, right croak?" I ask as I twirl the wand around in my hand. "Like your new name?"
He lundges forward at me, I throw my leg up, and slam my foot into his chest. All while channeling from the staff. He flies back through the corridor landing by all the bodies that he killed. One advantage he doesn't know, I've seen how he fights.
He immediately gets up, and grabs the sword from his back. Liam is already running at him with the candle stick. He throws back his sword from liam, making the candle stick fall from Liam's hands. He's now defenseless.
He throws the sword up, and Liam ducks back. Then grabs his hand, and throws his elbow into his face, but croak dodges it, and uses his foot to kick in Liam's knee. Liam falls.
Croak twists his hand from Liam's grasp causing Liam's arm to be pinned behind his back. Croak grabs his sword and raises it.
My breathing stops. I scream "LIAAAAM" I channel everything from the staff and send it at croak. He drops Liam from the surge, but continues standing there, he looses his foot work a bit, but it's like he's fighting wind and winning. Liam is out from the surge. Yet this fucker's still standing.
"Enough is enough. If you want the wand then come get it." I'm seething now, this shit shouldn't even be possible. I run at him. He twists, like I expected. The staff catches him on the legs, he falls.
He immediately grabs the staff but I keep my grip. He uses the staff to throw me into the next room, More like slide, since I don't fall at the surge. He's not the only one that knows how to do that, and I kept my grip on the wand. Something he can't even get his hands on it.
He lunges, I counter, and I hit him in the back with the staff. I swear I hear him grunt before he steps back and grabs a sword from the wall.
He swings it forward, I hold the staff up to take the hit, it does. I twist it back, he almost drops the sword. But doesn't instead he ducks from nothing, and lunges straight at my legs. I try to move but he's too fast. I fall.
He gets on top of me and holds the sword high to stab me in the face. I try to channel from the staff but it's not in my hand. It's gone. I stare at the point of the sword. But it doesn't move, it doesn't penetrate the skull... why?
I cringe as I watch blood spill from croak's neck. It falls into my jacket, face, hair. Then I watch as his body is pulled off me and thrown on the floor.
Liam stands there out of breath with a bloody wire in his hand. A fucking wire. "You sliced through his neck with a wire!?" He throws the wire down, and grabs my arms helping me up.
"What else was I supposed to use? He stole my candlestick." He says trying to wipe the blood off of my face as his breathing slowly calms down.
I look over at croak. "What is that?" A black smoke steams off of croak.
Liam looks, "I don't know, maybe he planned a BBQ for when he died, beats me." I shake my head. This idiot.
I walk over to croak and hunch down to pull down his hood. His hood turns to smoke. "No no no" I reach out to the rest of him, and it all turns to smoke. "FUCK" I scream
Liam crouched down to me. "What the hell."
His entire body turns to smoke. "It was an illusion." I breathe out.
